Trying Something New

What I'm Reading: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
What I'm Writing: 20 minute practice session featuring Esther and Hammond, a married couple with varying degrees of wanderlust.
WIP: Fireballz -- an upper middle grade novel about Fred O'Connor, who liked the game so much he really got into it.

Today begins a new format for the old blog. Quick and dirty and then on to the important business of fiction.

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Writing Prompt Thursday

Today, a little something different. I went to my handy-dandy Field Guide to Weeds by Lawrence J. Crockett. Weeds can have picturesque names. Here are three to get you started:


Creeping Jenny

Cheatgrass

Devil's Bootjack


Really, I'm not making any of these up.

Writing Prompt Thursday

I feels the need to share some prompting joy. So here goes. Start with one of these. Give it at least 17 minutes. Why 17? 'cause I said so, that's why. (Yes, I am a mother.)

1. What's worse: public speaking or a chocolate shortage?
2. If you had to leave the country -- for good -- what would you pack in the one suitcase you're allowed to take with you? (You can do this one for a character.)
3. What if you (or your character) could save someone (stranger, friend or family member), but to do so would cause the saver to become disfigured in some way. Would you (or your character) choose the someone's life, or not?

Happy paper trails!